The Summer of Flooding
Over the two days from August 9th to the 10th, rainfall totaled an average of 9.18 inches in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, an amount sufficient to
Another Healthcare System Experiences a Cyberattack, Disrupting Services to Patients; What If Your Client Is Next?
On June 1, 2025, Central Maine Healthcare (CMH) discovered unusual activity in its computer network. (Quirk, 2025) They responded by shutting down their computer and
Are Your Insured’s Limits Adequate to Pay a Nuclear Verdict?
While driving on I-70 in Fayette County, Illinois, Benjamin Ray, driving a pickup truck owned by pipeline contractor Foltz Welding Ltd., rear-ended a tractor-trailer driven
As the EPLI Environment Changes, Are You Keeping Up?
What do these examples all have in common? After reporting a safety violation, an administrator fires an employee. After participating in an age discrimination investigation
Cyberattack Disrupts Operations for Major Natural Foods Supplier; What If One of Your Clients Is Next?
In June of 2025, United Natural Foods Inc. (UNFI) disclosed that the company had discovered “unauthorized activity” in its systems. In short, they were hacked.
School Districts Targeted for Cyber Attacks: Is Yours Prepared?
In September 2022, the FBI and the CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) warned of ransomware attacks “disproportionately targeting the [K-12] education sector.” In the same
A Byte-Sized Tech Chat with Garret Droege, CIC
Awkward Insurance hosts Dustyne Bryant and Ashley Fitzsimmons have a fun conversation with Garrett Droege, CIC Director of Innovation and Digital Risk Practice Leader at IMA Financial and Co-Founder of IMA web3Labs, about beautifully complex concepts around web3, insurtech, and machine learning technologies in an effort to understand how these concepts may apply to the insurance industry and independent agents and agencies in particular. Believe it or not, you may already have a “tech-stack” in your agency, so the next step forward may not be as concerning as you think.
NFTs, Blockchain & Web3…Oh, My!
In this episode, host Dustyne Bryant is joined by guest host Heath Shearon (host of the Insurance Town Podcast) and guest Joe Hollier (Louisiana Agent
Managing Cyber Exposures White Paper
FREE Managing Cyber Exposures White Paper Managing Cyber ExposuresWhite Paper Cybercrime and Changing Coverage Demands The industry is seeing an increased interest in coverage related
